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Solving the 1D Schrodinger Equation
Morgan Hawker, California State University-Fresno
In this activity, students will explore 1-dimensional solutions to the time-independent Schrodinger equation. Students will utilize a provided MATLAB live script to determine exact energy values for two different ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Chemistry
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Data Processing with MATLAB: Formation Energies of Titanium Oxides
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an extremely common chemical substance and finds uses ranging from serving as a pigment for white paint, sunscreen and even toothpaste, to serving as a photosensitizer in waste water ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Chemistry
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Vector Fields
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
This activity is exploratory and collaborative MATLAB activity. Students will explore and visualize vector fields. Students will also learn about the flow lines of the vector fields.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Mathematics
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Scaling sizes of sports field
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
This is a MATLAB live script that guides students to learn about the kinematics of thrown balls in various sports. It helps the students learn about simple numerical methods to solve differential equations, as well ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Physics
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Unprecedented
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt San Antonio College
This project is designed to introduce lower-division science and engineering students to mathematical modelling through the analysis of real-world data related to the novel coronavirus global pandemic. The project ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Field Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Engineering, Health Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics
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Intro to Image Processing with MATLAB
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This short project introduces students to image processing with MATLAB including importing images from the web, color transformations, circle finding, and edge finding. These techniques are broadly applicable in ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Physics

Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots
Tess Weathers, Chabot College
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Biology, Environmental Science, Engineering
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Working with Spatial Data in MATLAB
Andrew Fischer, University of Tasmania
Students are introduced to two spatial data models, vector and raster. By the end of this activity, students will be able to describe the two different data models and create, import and visualize various spatial ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science

Area Moment of Inertia Calculator
Louis Woodhams, Washington University in St Louis
Students must use Matlab to draw a region of interest on an image and calculate properties of the shape such as area, area moment of inertia, and principal axes.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Engineering

Problem Set/Electric Circuits Analysis
Dennis Dahlquist, California State University-Sacramento
Electric Circuit Analysis problem sets for general engineering. Problem examples cover course topics for an engineering accredited program and fundamental engineering professional exam topics on electrical ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project, Problem Set
Subject: Engineering